I hope you enjoy the new website. The Crypt Crawlers are a small guild composed of fun and laid back players who enjoy questing together. Currently, the Crypt Crawlers play Dungeons and Dragon Online on the Thelanis Server and some of us also like to play multiplayer in Never Winter Nights Two.

If you like to quest and to have a good time and are interested in playing with a guild, please give us a shout and we will try to get together with you to see if we are the guild for you.

Risia Ice Games Close Out Monday, Februray 16

Maintenance on Wednesday, February 11th

On Wednesday, February 11th, the DDO Game servers were brought down for some maintenance. The maintenance was scheduled to go from 6 am until 11 am but the window was extended well into the afternoon. Hopefully they did some more work on the lag issues.

DDOCast has another contest

Hey all, Patrick at the DDOCast is giving away another set of 500 Point Turbine codes. He is looking for some screenshots of soulstones to use as splash screens for his recent runs in permadeath. If you have any good screenshots (he prefers to have screenshots without the UI interface showing) send them on to him for a chance to win some Turbine Points.

Monster Champion Hate just Won't Go Away

Severlin and Vargouille were busy this week talking about monster champions. A thread was started on the DDO General Discussion forums where a lot of folks continue to complain about their implementation and where another set of players supported them. This is definitely a touchy topic.

DDO TwitchTV and the Winter Fling

Earlier this week, Cordovan took some folks into the quests Lines of Supply and Breaking the Ranks for the weekly Wednesday livestream on TwitchTV and then following that, the Winter Fling headed out into Gianthold.

Active Podcasts!!

The majority of the DDO Podcasts have been quite active over this past week. First off, the latest DDOCast did question and answer session of the DDO Development team which focused primarily on the creation of loot. Then the DDO Cocktail Hour knocked out two podcasts, one with Lessah and her permadeath guildies, and the a regular one where Lessah and Samius discuss monster champions. And then the DDO Players News released a new episode. I also noted that the DDO Damsels put out a new podcast this week as well. So a lot going on there!!

Not to mention all of the movement on the TwitchTV and YouTube channels!!

Spencerion (Order of Syncletica) Wonders What Type of Player You Are

Specerion, the author of the blog Order of Syncletica, drafted up a very well written blog looking into player behavior and classification and applying those studies to DDO. He wonders how the make up of DDO players affects the gaming world and what players expect while playing. The blog is located here:

DDO is compared to NWO by MMOGames.com

The MMO website, MMOGames.com, compares DDO to its chief D&D rival, NWO. The author of the article compares a couple primary features including gameplay, guilds, cost, and features and rates which game he feels is better. Overall, he rated DDO a better D&D experience than NWO. The article is linked below:

DDOCast takes a stab at Permadeath

Patrick, at DDOCast, has decided to join up with the Thelanis Permadeath Guild, Sublime. He is going to stream their runs through TwitchTV. Sounds like it might be an interesting set of events. Check it out when you get a chance!!

DDOCocktail Hour has been busy!!

Hey all, I just wanted to pass along that the DDO Cocktail hour has put out two new shows relatively recently. The first show was about permadeath play and rules and the second one was some conversations about monster champions and a few other things.

Steelstar looks into gathering more data on lag issues

Recently a post on the DDO forums complained of having a party lag wipe in Temple of the Deathwrym. As a result, and another show of effort, Turbine is looking into ways to fix this with Steelstar asking for further clarification on the issue.

Hotfix scheduled for today is postponed

Hey all, there was a hotfix scheduled to be put in place today but for some reason it has been postponed. I wonder what happened with it. I'm guessing the fix would break something else. In any case, we can probably expect some downtime soon.

DDO Players News is giving away a two-month VIP code

Hey all, the DDO Players News folks are giving away a two-month VIP subscription in a new contents that closes on February 10th. All you have to do is make a post/comment on their website to be eligible. I have put the link below:

Snow storm affects those at Turbine

The recent snow storm has had some impact on Turbine. The customer service phone support had its hours shortened as a result of the major winter storm. Hopefully sending people home a little early will be the only things that occur for the folks in the Northeast.

Severlin comments on lag problems

In a recent post, Severlin commented on some of the lag issues and that they continue to work on it. They are examining the areas of lag spikes in the specific nodes and hope to diagnose those problem areas and get them fixed.